work: I have not been to work in something
like two weeks time, exams taking their toll. So, not much
to say but that I'll be going back in-to the trenches
tomorrow, yay!

comp.sci.: My one exam is finally over;
hopefully I'll never again have to hand-craft SLR-parse
tables, or convert IEEE floats from binary to decimal.

comp.lang.python: Sadly a lonely post to
comp.lang.python is the only hackish thing I've done in a
while; it seems I learned something from my first-year
comp.sci. programming-and-data-structures course, though,
since I cooked up a binary search of a list of numbers in no time (as is only
fitting :-).

real programming(tm): I have been thinking
about getting back into freeciv-hacking, as I recall it was
actually not so bad. I probably spent more time hacking the
sources than playing the game :-). <rant> This was
probably brough on by my getting pissed with Activision
after buying CtpII. CtpII is probably the suckiest
Civilization-clone out there. For one thing the AI is so bad
it probably could not beat my old, computer-illiterate
grand-mother. And don't get me started on the UI, makes me
want to cry :-/ </rant>

work: nothing much interesting to say here, I work
as (part-time) system administrator for a small web-enabled
company, where I am the local *nix guru, Perl hacker and
geek in general. Good job, nice people and good perks, and
I just got green light to move our servers to Debian
(they are being reorganized).

edu: computer science major, with a minor in math.,
trying to prepare for exam (T-7days and counting). C.S. is
generally a full of cool things for me to learn, but there
are some really boring things too, for example creating
SLR-parse tables by hand :-(.

programming: hmm. . . I did some Windows programming
yesterday, needed to somehow get a list of existing drives.
It seems one cannot do this, so you have to do something
like,